You can improve accuracy of spam detection by training the spam filter on the e-mail messages that you have in your mailbox.
To improve accuracy of spam detection:
- In your Control Panel, click the
Mail icon in the Services group. - Click the e-mail address you need.
- Click the
Spam Filter icon in the Tools group. - Click the Training tab.
All e-mail messages you have in your mailbox are presented on the screen. Each message is accompanied by an icon in the left column, which tells if a message is recognized as spam -
, non-spam -
, or not recognized at all -
. If you have already trained your spam filter on a message and the results were recorded in the spam filter's database, an icon
is shown in the right column. - Train the spam filter.
In most cases, you can tell if a message is spam by looking at its subject line and sender's name. If they do not give you any clue, try looking inside the message using your e-mail program or Webmail interface.
- To mark a message as spam, select the corresponding check box and click 'It's Spam!'.
- To mark a message as not spam, select the corresponding check box and click 'It's Not Spam'.
- To remove any information on a given message from the spam filter database, select the corresponding check box and click 'Forget It'.
- Once finished with training, you can remove spam e-mails from your mailbox using your e-mail program or Horde IMP Webmail interface.
